William Blake is the author of this poem. He was a nineteenth century poet and artist, considered to be one of the key figures of the Romantic movement. Blake’s poetry often uses ordinary images from daily life and imbues them with symbolic meaning which speak of the contradictions and paradoxes of human existence.
Sujata Bhatt is an Indian poet from Gujarat, who moved to the United States in 1968. She has to her credit many poetry anthologies and is the recipient of several literary prizes for poetry. She often combines Gujarati and English in her poems, producing a peculiar variety of Indian-English, which speaks..................................
Gabriel Okara (1921-2019) is generally held to be one of the first modernist poets of Anglophone Africa. His poetry provides a sharp unflinching unveiling of the paradoxes of contemporary African identity, lodged between nativism, the consequences of colonialism, the lure of modernity and the distortions this triad ...............
William Blake (1757-1827) is an important figure among nineteenth century Romantic poets. He was a poet, artist and visionary, whose poetic world is imbued with a deep sense of dissatisfaction for modern life. His poetry reflects his iconoclastic vision about religion, education and the family, all of.......................
The Canterbury Tales is a 14th century text in Middle English, which uses the frame narrative of a group of pilgrims journeying from London to the shrine of the martyred saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury. Within this overall framework, the host asks each pilgrim to tell a tale in order to make their journey more agreeable. The Canterbury............
A Memory-Ted Hughes
Wordsworth is one of the nineteenth century English poets famous for having made the lives of ordinary peasants the subject of poetry. Wordworth was a city poet, therefore in his poetry the simplicity and ruggedness of peasant life is often idealized. About a century later the poetry of Ted Hughes deals with..............
Simon Armitage is a contemporary British poet. He is not the author of the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight but one of its modern translators. The original poem is a mediaeval 14th Century text by an unknown poet, preserved in manuscript form with three other long poems. It is considered to be one of the best literary productions of..........................................
And Still I Rise
This is the eponymous poem which gives its name to the present collection. It is probably the most famous of Maya Angelou’s poems. It speaks of the unrelenting ascent of a woman over all sorts of blows and adversity, which come from history but also from the social gaze which expects the woman to look like somebody who shows the signs of adversity on her humble body............
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